Imagination Technologies Limited

Hellosoft, Inc.

Hellosoft India Pvt. Ltd

Sriram Kankipati

Kaushik Barman

Raghavendra Malladi

Allan A Johnson

Parag Dighe

Somya Sharma

Vellenki Umapathireddy

Luis Aldaz

Luis Aldaz, Sr, Legal Representative

Luis Aldaz, Jr

Krushna Prasad Ojha

A method and processing block for receiving data transmitted in a MIMO system is provided. Data is transmitted as a transmit vector of values from multiple transmitting antennas and received as a receive vector of values at multiple receiving antennas. Candidate vectors are determined based on each of a plurality of constellation points of the constellation configuration used in the transmission scheme. A channel matrix is decomposed into a unitary matrix and a triangular matrix, such that a relationship links: (i) a function of the unitary matrix and the receive vector, and (ii) a multiplication of the triangular matrix and the transmit vector. A best candidate vector from the set of candidate vectors is utilized for the computation of soft bits representing the values of the transmit vector.

Low complexity soft output MIMO decoder

An apparatus comprises a network physical layer and an activity sensor for sensing a packet and activating the network physical layer from shutdown. The network physical layer decodes a PHY header portion and a media access control header portion of a packet header. A MAC has a fixed hardware media access plane implementing IEEE 802.11 series MAC functionality and couples to a microprocessor. A MAC address parser receives the MAC header portion of the packet, for processing the MAC header portion of the packet, and for activating the MAC from a shutdown in response to recognizing a MAC address within the MAC header portion of the packet, such that the MAC is not activated if the MAC parser does not recognize the MAC address, wherein the MAC is operable, after activation, to perform MAC functionality without the microprocessor and to provide data from the packet to the microprocessor.

Hardware-based packet address parsing for packet reception in wireless networks

Passive listening in wireless communication. An activity sensor device senses a packet. A medium access control (MAC) address parser receives the packet, processes a header of the packet, and activates a MAC device in response to recognizing a MAC address within the header, such that the MAC device is not activated if the MAC address parser does not recognize the MAC address.

Passive listening in wireless communication

A method and system for low-complexity implementation of a Viterbi Decoder with near optimal performance has been disclosed. The Viterbi decoding technique is diagrammatically represented as a trellis. The trellis includes various states at different time instants, and branches connecting these states. Each state has an associated state metric and a survivor path sequence, whereas each branch has a branch metric. The state metric for each current state is checked for crossing a predefined limit. If it crosses the predefined limit, the state metric is updated with a new metric that is obtained by subtracting a constant value from the state metric. Thereafter, the method finds a common path in the trellis at each state and updates the survivor path sequence of each state. The Most Significant Bits (MSBs) of the survivor path sequences of the states at a particular time instant are computed and the original data is decoded, based on the count of '0s' and '1s' in the MSBs.

Low complexity implementation of a Viterbi decoder with near optimal performance

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